Anthony

There was alot of info about cutting acrylic on the net.

I havent looked recently though.

The blade does have to be straight and the tip of the point itself can be sloped the wrong way.

Make sure you do not make the acrylic hot. This is obvious if you can smell it.

Laser cutting is so quick that it dos'nt give it a chance to heat up.

Aaron

Working with it at school (many years ago now) we used fine saws (like hacksaws) and metal files, also make sure you support the side of your cuts so it cant bend and snap. It really easy stuff to work with if you are sensible.

i think ill just get it laser cut

and does anybody no if carters in petone sells the pumpling supplies ill need?

cheers

ant

why don't you buy pies a beer and talk tanks

he may only want pies !

pay back will be high

I agree with RnB if Pies is happy with it. The more we help each other the better.

Aaron

im only 14 im not old enough to buy beer

Talk to him

and does anybody no if carters in petone sells the pumpling supplies ill need?

Anthony, I told you were to get plumbing from. No carters don't sell everything you need (they may sell some stuff I don't know).

Pie

ill get most of the stuff from carters as i can get a discount because my brother works there

I get 40% off at Mico

40% how??

its a while away before plumpling

its gonna be awhile before i get the tank i still need to speak to peter and get some prices

40% off list is trade, MICO give me trade.

I will be in to see Peter this week too, pickup my new sump

Pie

Egg Crate - You want to only use the non-coated stuff. Costs $15.00 per sheet, available from Mulford Plastics in the Hutt.

how big is a sheet?

cheers

ant

i got a book the other day some thing like 3 bucks its called a practical guide to setting up your marine tropical aqaurium and its by dick mills it explians what everything is and they show step by step of how to set one up but they only have rock in it not any corals

ant

I am still setting up my tank but thought I would place the return underwater but drill a small hole say 5mm in the return pipe down about 30mm below the water level. This should break the syphon when the level in the tank drops.

30mm in my tank equates to approx 30 litres which the sump can accommodate. Do you think this will work ?

the size of tank i want will be 4ft by 2ft by 1.5ft high and 3 ft by 2ft by 1.5ft high sump the main tank will be 10mm glass and will i get away will 6mm glass for the sump how much roughly would this cost me?

how much rock will i be needing?

cheers

ant

Anthony, just call peter and ask him, he'll be able to give you a far better price than any of us would.

Ant,

that is about the same number of liters as my setup, I have about 30-40kg of live rock. Proberly more than I 'need' but you can't have too much. Plus it can be hard to get good cured rock, if you can find some buy as much as you can afford. Also buy it as soon as you can , the sooner you get it the sooner your tank will cycle. Remember the cycle for salt water takes a lot longer than fresh, can be up to 9 months+ if you rocks not so good before the different Aglae blooms stop.

If you don't have the tank ready get the rock anyway and put it anything, like an old tank, or drum, it doesn't need much/any light.

Be careful of old/cheap books things change really fast and marine books go out of date quickly.

Weka,

Yes it works, and is common parctice.